The Rise of Engineering Science How Technology Became Scientific /

• Main Author: Channell, David F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 35
• Subjects: Mechanical engineering.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; History.; Technology-History.; Mechanical Engineering.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; History of Science.; History of Technology.

The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science, transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today. This book analyzes...